Quotes by Solange Knowles

Solange Knowles

[Beyoncé ] did a kickass job. You were the most patient, loving, wonderful sister ever. In the 30 years that we’ve been together, I think we’ve only really, like, butted heads … we can count on one hand.

Hands

Jobs

Thinking

A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don’t want it to have that live funky sound so I’ll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there’s consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.

Consistency

Hate

Want

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

Decision

Explanation

Giving

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

Artist

Opportunity

Speak

He [ the son]’s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn’t listened to and to make that his thing.

Listening

Rebellion

Son

I actually love my natural hair when it’s in a twist out and it’s been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

Hair

Natural

Twists

I actually produced other people’s vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, “You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn’t identify as a Solange song.”

Long

Song

Writing

I actually was a ballet dancer – I studied ballet from three until 13 – but like very seriously, that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

Ballet

Dancer

Three

I always have looked at “indie” as a term of “independence.” Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant “popular” to me it didn’t define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.

Independence

Sweet

Thinking

I don’t really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

Artist

Believe

Marketing

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Best Of The Best

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Brother

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Consistency

Dancer

Decision

Differences

Done

Dream

Educated

Explanation

Expression

Fans

Fashion

Father

Fighting

Fun

Generations

Giving

Gratitude

Hair

Hands

Hate

Hip Hop

Home

Honor

I Love Music

Identity

Important

Independence

Inspiring

Internet

Jobs

Journey

Joy

Juxtaposition

Letting Go

Life Is

Life Is Too Short

Lifetime

Lineage

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Quotes by Solange Knowles

Solange Knowles

[Beyoncé ] did a kickass job. You were the most patient, loving, wonderful sister ever. In the 30 years that we’ve been together, I think we’ve only really, like, butted heads … we can count on one hand.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

He [ the son]’s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn’t listened to and to make that his thing.

I actually love my natural hair when it’s in a twist out and it’s been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

I actually was a ballet dancer – I studied ballet from three until 13 – but like very seriously, that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

I don’t really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

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